Natural preserved areas in Córdoba (Argentina): policy development and the lack of land management
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Abstract
The Argentinean Province of Córdoba has a natural preserved area which affects almost 4,000,000 hectares and spans 23.7% of its territory. Therefore, it is the second Argentinean province with a high percentage of its territory under any of the preservation measures or piece of legislation regulated by the federal and provincial legal system. However, only 1% of the preserved natural space has a management plan. This article sheds some light on the contradiction between legal compromise and territory management. Besides, we wonder if the ability to manage the natural preserved areas really exists. In order to write this research paper, we focused on the realization of some partly structured interviews, meaning a field research. The subjects of them were those staff members with environmental weight concerning both the federal and the local administration.
Besides, this research is consolidated by legal, quantitative and cartographic data, as well as some bibliographical study.